A week after the crash.

Knee is doing much better. I ran 12k yesterday. Wasn’t in my normal run form and my running HR has certainly suffered. I think I have two weeks to get back to the great shape I was before the crash and then I’ll have to start tapering.

the main issue with the knee is gone, but the one of the ligaments that attaches to. the back of the knee feels bad. My first run after the crash, it burned a little before I shut it down. Yesterday, it didn’t burn much until the last 2k or so. This morning, I woke up with it feeling worse than it did yesterday. I think a few days off running will get it back in shape but I have to run again in two days. It better behave

A bigger effect though is a psychological one. At the time, I was completely unfazed by the crash. It was as if I fell from a still position at a red light. The obliviousness carried on for several days. Saturday, I did 100k ride with 1300m of elevation. It was good but some of the roads were very sketchy. A long decent from Sintra was a winding road that culminated in a narrow, super technical decent with mini buses and full size buses going up these teardrop bends. on two occasions, I pulled over to let the bus through. On one occasion, the bus would have hit me if I didn’t. Mind you, this was a 2 lane street. But at a %10+ decent and tree droppings all across, it was mad sketchy.

This last ride didn’t help me regain confidence on the bike. In the past few days, I was blocking ideas of how terrible to accident could have been. Now, I’m considering all the ways cycling is too dangerous for me. I don’t need a hobby where I have to consider the possibility of severe injury.